Woman threatens to accuse father of paedophilia after he uses nappy changing room 'only for mothers'
Young mum intervenes as man told 'get out you sicko'
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Your support makes all the difference.A woman reportedly threatened to accuse a father of paedophilia because he was using a supermarket nappy-changing room which she claimed was only for women.
As the man tried to change his young son's dirty nappy, the woman is said to have told him that the room was “only for mothers".
"Get out, you sicko”, she said, according to another mother, Mikaa Ives, who recounted the episode in a Facebook post.
Ms Ives from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, said she had gone to change her own daughter at Kawana Shopping World when "a lady with two little kids entered the same time I did."
She said the dad, who was in the middle of changing his son's nappy was "already having a difficult time with his son not wanting to be changed", when "the lady piped up and started abusing the dad for being in the parents room."
The lady she started "saying she would call security and say he was staring at her naked kids if he didn’t leave the room,” she added.
“He picked up his son, who, mind you, didn’t even have a clean nappy on yet, and went to stand outside the door," Ms Ives wrote. "His son was hysterical and he’s just saying, ‘It’s okay mate, we’ll go back in there soon’. At this point I thought f**k this, told the dad to come back in and finish changing his son, told the lady that if she wanted to call security to go ahead because I would 100 per cent back the dad up.
“She didn’t even change her kids, just had them in there playing so she could sit on her phone. I was beyond disgusted. Old mate finished changing his son, thanked me and off he went.”
She added that the woman "didn’t even change her kids, just had them in there playing so she could sit on her phone."
As a result, she was she was "beyond disgusted" but the man "finished changing his son, thanked me and off he went.”
Ms Ives’s post attracted widespread support on the Sunny Coast Community Board page.
Other Facebook users also weighed in. One said: “This is so sad, dads deserve as many rights as mums, poor guy.”
And another said: “I got this on so many occasions [being] a single dad with my daughter 24/7, made me not want to go out.”
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